ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,018, issued on July 15, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).
"System and methods for observing soil samples" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Fatemah M. Safar (Safat, Kuwait) and Shikha A. Ebrahim (Safat, Kuwait).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for obtaining a soil sample, dispensing liquid, such as a nanoparticle suspension, into the soil sample, collecting the resulting leachate, and extracting a soil layer from the obtained soil sample. A sample tube is used for obtaining and holding a soil sample, and includes a removable section and stationary section joined in sliding relation to each other. ...